Sun, June 13, 2004
This country is too paranoid—11:43 AM
I bought windshield wiper fluid at Ralphs the other day, because my car's computer readout had been whining about it for weeks. (If it had come with Bill Daniels's voice, I'd have listened right away.)
Anyway, I got out to the car, and I unscrewed the cap off the bottle of wiper fluid, and there was a tamper-proof seal under there. What the fuck?
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a warning label that reads: "Do not drink wiper fluid; it may have been poisoned due to the lack of tamper-proof seal. (Also: it probably wouldn't be a good idea to drink unpoisoned wiper fluid, either.)"
I mean, what can someone possibly put into wiper fluid that warrants a tamper-proof seal? Windshield acid? Wouldn't that eat through the bottle? Bug food, to attract insects to your windshield in a cruel prank? I just don't get it.
Off Topic: I also noticed a few billboards for a new TV series on SciFi called Five Days to Midnight. It looks as though it's meant to be a gripping dramatic thriller. All I can think whenever I see the poor guy on the poster is, "Dude! There's one tonight!"
